147.45
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Increase efforts to combat sexual and gender-based violence, in line with the national strategy, including criminalizing domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.79
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Pass adequate legislation to fight and prevent domestic violence and create safe houses for women in all provinces of Iraq
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.90
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Pass the bill on domestic violence expeditiously, and raise awareness of the legislation’s key provisions among all relevant stakeholders, including women, men, law enforcement officials, religious leaders and civil society so as to ensure its effective implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.138
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Stem and prevent, in law and in practice, violence against women, gender-based violence and discrimination by, inter alia, passing a comprehensive law on combating domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.236
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt legislation prohibiting gender-based crimes committed in the name of “honour” and criminalizing all forms of female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
147.261
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt the already developed draft law on domestic violence to criminalize all forms of violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
147.53
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Reform legislation to ensure justice and support for survivors of sexual violence and the accountability of perpetrators, including specifically making sexual slavery and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation illegal as a crime separate from kidnapping or detention
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Gender-based violence
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
147.108
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Review and amend legal provisions, including the Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, which discriminate against women and girls and cultivate a culture of gender-based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.148
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Further strengthen mechanisms at the national level to prevent and protect all victims of domestic violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.151
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts against domestic violence, including through the enactment of laws
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.253
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt laws to prevent and eradicate harmful traditional practices against women and girls, in particular early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, throughout its territory
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
147.61
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt the draft law on domestic violence in line with international standards, excluding the possibility of the perpetrator of a rape marrying the victim
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.46
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Repeal all provisions of the Penal Code that tolerate domestic violence and gender-based violence and amend said Code to include punishment for rape and sexual aggression
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.66
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt and fully implement legislation criminalizing all forms of domestic violence, including by protecting women reporting such cases
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.68
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt and implement a law on domestic violence and change the law permitting honour as lawful defence for violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.76
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Finalize its bill on domestic violence and enact it into law, prohibiting all forms of domestic violence and prescribing appropriate penalties for violations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.80
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Adopt a draft law on domestic violence to criminalize all forms of violence against women, including forced intimate relationships
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Amend the nationality act (No. 26 of 2006) to ensure equality of rights between women and men in the acquisition, transfer, retention and change of nationality and to criminalize all forms of domestic violence against women, including forced intimate relations, “crimes of honour” and female genital mutilation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
147.242
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Implement laws and policies to further promote women’s political and economic empowerment and combat all forms of discrimination and violence against women, including migrant women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
147.40
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Continue efforts to implement operational frameworks focusing on protecting women and children from violence, and establish clear, achievable objectives to enhance the representation and employment of women in governance
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.58
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Ensure the implementation of a national strategy to eliminate violence against women
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
147.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Pass and implement legislation which prohibits all forms of gender- based violence
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
147.243
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Set up a zero-tolerance policy towards gender-based crimes committed in the name of “honour”
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
147.245
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Take measures to protect women and eliminate impunity for perpetrators of acts of sexual violence in armed conflict
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Impunity
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.249
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Increase education on and awareness of the strategy to combat violence against women to ensure its effective implementation
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Women's rights
147.260
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Continue the implementation and the national strategy to combat violence against women and to promote protection of women’s rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Women's rights
147.265
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Prevent and eradicate harmful practices against women and girls, particularly early and forced marriage
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Women's rights
147.270
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Eradicate remaining harmful practices, particularly female genital mutilation and early and forced marriage, and raise public awareness of their negative effects
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights
147.263
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Establish a national institution for women’s empowerment with a mandate to monitor the development and implementation of legislation and policies designed to eliminate discrimination and violence against women and girls, and increase their access to rights such as those to work, health and education
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Discrimination
- Gender-based violence
- National Human Rights Institution
- Women's rights
147.262
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 34 - November 2019
- State under Review
- State under Review - Regional Group
- Asia (Asian Group)
- Recommendation
Prevent and eradicate harmful practices that discriminate against women and girls, including early, “temporary” and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, by raising public awareness about their negative effects
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Gender-based violence
- Human rights education and training
- Rights of the Child
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Women's rights